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    MARTIAN

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    Here is a draft letter in response: Dear Martian, Thank you for sharing your observations of Earth in such an imaginative poem. I found it fascinating to see familiar concepts described in unfamiliar ways, as you do through the fresh perspective of being from Mars. Your descriptions of mist, rain, cars, books, bathrooms and more provided insightful analogies. It's interesting that weather phenomena like mist and rain evoked descriptions of the sky and earth's relationship, or colors darkening. Everyday items like a car or telephone were envisioned poetically as well. I appreciate you taking the time to document your experiences of our world. While some things may seem strange to observe from a Martian viewpoint,

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    Here is a draft letter in response: Dear Martian, Thank you for sharing your observations of Earth in such an imaginative poem. I found it fascinating to see familiar concepts described in unfamiliar ways, as you do through the fresh perspective of being from Mars. Your descriptions of mist, rain, cars, books, bathrooms and more provided insightful analogies. It's interesting that weather phenomena like mist and rain evoked descriptions of the sky and earth's relationship, or colors darkening. Everyday items like a car or telephone were envisioned poetically as well. I appreciate you taking the time to document your experiences of our world. While some things may seem strange to observe from a Martian viewpoint,

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    Here is a draft letter in response: Dear Martian, Thank you for sharing your observations of Earth in such an imaginative poem. I found it fascinating to see familiar concepts described in unfamiliar ways, as you do through the fresh perspective of being from Mars. Your descriptions of mist, rain, cars, books, bathrooms and more provided insightful analogies. It's interesting that weather phenomena like mist and rain evoked descriptions of the sky and earth's relationship, or colors darkening. Everyday items like a car or telephone were envisioned poetically as well. I appreciate you taking the time to document your experiences of our world. While some things may seem strange to observe from a Martian viewpoint,

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    MARTIAN

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    Judy Ann Capanas
    Here is a draft letter in response: Dear Martian, Thank you for sharing your observations of Earth in such an imaginative poem. I found it fascinating to see familiar concepts described in unfamiliar ways, as you do through the fresh perspective of being from Mars. Your descriptions of mist, rain, cars, books, bathrooms and more provided insightful analogies. It's interesting that weather phenomena like mist and rain evoked descriptions of the sky and earth's relationship, or colors darkening. Everyday items like a car or telephone were envisioned poetically as well. I appreciate you taking the time to document your experiences of our world. While some things may seem strange to observe from a Martian viewpoint,

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    Prayer

    Craig Raine
    • Craig Raine poet born in 1944, who is
    known as an exponent of “Martian
    Poetry”, by which is meant by the
    expression of familar concepts in
    unfamiliar ways. The term derived from
    his poem “A Martian Sends a Postcard
    Home”, which was first published in the
    “New Statesman” in 1977.
    • He was educated at Oxford. He is a poet, a
    novelist, and recently the poetry editor of
    Faber and Faber, and an academic at New
    College, Oxford, where he is now Professor
    Emeritus. His first collection of poetry was
    published in 1978, and he has gone on to
    produce eleven collections, in addition to two
    novels and some literary criticisms.
    Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings
    and some are treasured for their markings –
    they cause the eyes to melt
    or the body to shriek without pain.

    I have never seen one fly, but


    sometimes they perch on the hand.
    Mist is when the sky is tired of flight
    and rests its soft machine on ground:
    then the world is dim and bookish
    like engravings under tissue paper.

    Rain is when the earth is television.


    It has the property of making colours darker.

    Model T is a room with the lock inside –


    a key is turned to free the world

    for movement, so quick there is a film


    to watch for anything missed.
    But time is tied to the wrist
    or kept in a box, ticking with impatience.

    In homes, a haunted apparatus sleeps,


    that snores when you pick it up.

    If the ghost cries, they carry it


    to their lips and soothe it to sleep

    with sounds. And yet, they wake it up


    deliberately, by tickling with a finger.
    Only the young are allowed to suffer
    openly. Adults go to a punishment room

    with water but nothing to eat.


    They lock the door and suffer the noises alone.
    No one is exempt
    and everyone’s pain has a different smell.

    At night, when all the colours die,


    they hide in pairs
    and read about themselves –
    in colour, with their eyelids shut.
    What is the first
    object that the
    Martian is able to
    describe?
    CAXTONS
    What two forms of
    weather are
    mentioned in the
    poem?
    THE MIST
    AND THE
    RAIN
    How does the
    Martian describe
    the two forms of
    weather?
    MIST - SKY IS TIRED OF
    FLIGHT AND RESTS ON
    GROUND
    RAIN - HAS THE
    PROPERTY OF
    MAKING COLORS
    DARKER
    Where do adults go
    where there is only
    water and nothing to
    eat?
    PUNISHMENT
    ROOM
    The martian
    described it as a
    room with a lock
    inside, what is it?
    MODEL T
    CAR
    CAR
    Model T is a room with the lock
    inside –
    a key is turned to free the world

    for movement, so quick there is a film


    to watch for anything missed.
    BOOKS
    Caxtons are mechanical birds with many
    wings
    and some are treasured for their markings
    –

    they cause the eyes to melt


    or the body to shriek without pain.

    I have never seen one fly, but


    sometimes they perch on the hand.
    BOOKS
    RAIN
    Rain is when the earth is
    television.

    It has the property of


    making colours darker.
    RAIN
    BATHROOM
    Only the young are allowed to suffer
    openly. Adults go to a punishment room

    with water but nothing to eat.


    They lock the door and suffer the noises
    alone. No one is exempt
    and everyone’s pain has a different smell.
    BATHROOM
    MIST
    Mist is when the sky is tired of
    flight
    and rests its soft machine on
    ground:

    then the world is dim and bookish


    like engravings under tissue
    paper.
    MIST
    TELEPHONE
    In homes, a haunted apparatus sleeps,
    that snores when you pick it up.

    If the ghost cries, they carry it


    to their lips and soothe it to sleep

    with sounds. And yet, they wake it up


    deliberately, by tickling with a finger.
    TELEPHONE
    SLEEPING COUPLE
    At night, when all the colours die,
    they hide in pairs

    and read about themselves –


    in colour, with their eyelids shut
    SLEEPING COUPLE
    CLOCK
    But time is tied to the wrist
    or kept in a box, ticking
    with impatience.
    CLOCK
    Assignment
    Make a letter
    addressed to the
    Martian.

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